In a career that seems to be getting busier and busier, Kevin Costner, who just turned 60, has found one of his juiciest roles in “Black or White,” a film that takes shape as a look at a racial divide in a mixed marriage, and ends up as a courtroom drama. Costner plays Elliot Anderson, a hard-drinking, well-to-do attorney whose world is rocked when his wife is killed in a car accident, leaving him to raise their 7-year-old granddaughter Eloise (Jillian Estell) who’s been living with them since...

Another police killing is stirring anger in another town, this time in New Jersey, where a tense traffic stop captured on video ended with a passenger shot to death as he stepped out of a car with his hands raised at shoulder height.

This week, the nation commemorated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leading black members of Congress chose to remember Dr. King at an event hosted by the Wellspring United Methodist Church in Ferguson, Missouri.